Scorpionidae Latreille, 1802

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Family Scorpionidae Latreille, 1802

Figures 1–10, 15–251, tables 1–5

Scorpionides Latreille, 1802: 46 , 47 (part), type genus: Scorpio Linnaeus, 1758 ; 1804: 110 (part); 1806: 130 (part); 1810: 116, 118 (part); Leach, 1814: 412; 1815: 390; Sundevall, 1833: 29 (part).

Scorpiones : Ehrenberg in Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1828, pl. I, figs. 1, 2 (family, part).

Buthides: C.L. Koch, 1837: 36, 37 (part).

Centrurides C.L. Koch, 1837: 38 (part), type genus: Centrurus Ehrenberg, 1829

[= Heterometrus Ehrenberg, 1828 ].

Pandinoidae Thorell, 1876a: 11 (part), type genus: Pandinus Thorell, 1876 ; 1876b: 83 (part); Karsch, 1879a: 19 (part); Thorell and Lindström, 1885: 25 (part).

Heterometridae Simon, 1879: 92, 115, type genus: Heterometrus Ehrenberg, 1828 (part) [= Scorpio Linnaeus, 1758 ].

Scorpionidae : Lankester, 1885: 379 (part); Pocock, 1893: 305, 306 (part); Kraepelin, 1894: 8 (part); Laurie, 1896b: 128 (part); Kraepelin, 1899: 96 (part); Pocock, 1900a: 11, 84; Kraepelin, 1901: 270 (part); 1905: 343 (part); 1913: 165; Birula, 1917a: 161 (part); 1917b: 58, 59 (part); Kopstein, 1921: 128; Pavlovsky, 1924a: 78 (part); 1925: 190, 191, 195 (part); Kopstein, 1926: 111; Fage, 1933: 27; Werner, 1934: 275 (part); Fage, 1936: 179, 181; Kästner, 1941: 232 (part); Fage, 1946: 73; Millot and Vachon, 1949: 428 (part); Petrunkevitch, 1955: 75; Bücherl, 1964: 59 (part); 1967: 114 (part); Tikader, 1973: 263; Stahnke, 1974: 339 (part); L.E. Koch, 1977: 159 (part); Lamoral, 1980: 440 (part); Levy and Amitai, 1980: 102 (part); Couzijn, 1981: 4, 5, 20; Francke, 1982: 75 (part); Tikader and Bastawade, 1983: 2, 3, 27, 32, 517, 518, fig. 45; Biswas, 1984: 318, 320, 321; Francke, 1985: 18; Lourenço, 1989: 161, 174; Sissom, 1990: 131; Nenilin and Fet, 1992: 5 (part); Kovařík, 1997: 183; 1998: 136; Lourenço, 1999: 929 (part); Fet, 2000: 427, 428 (part); Lourenço, 2000: 25; Prendini, 2000a: 34, 35, 39, 44; Indra, 2001: 55, 56; Bastawade, 2002: 295; Lourenço and Huber, 2002: 273; Kovařík, 2003: 136, table 1; Prendini et al., 2003: 185–189, 192–194, 206, 209, 210, 212, 217, 220, 223, 226, 230, 235, 250, 252–259, tables 1, 3, 4, 6, figs. 1–3, 8, appendices 1, 2; Soleglad and Fet, 2003a: 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 29, 56, 58, 59, 61, 67, 71, 75, 84, 86, 88, 111–117, 119–121, 138, 139, 141, 145, 148, tables 1, 9, 11, figs. 114, 126, appendices A, B (part); 2003b: 2, 5, 8, 18, 25, 31, table 1, figs. 5, 22; Bastawade, 2004: 286, 290; Bastawade et al., 2004: 43, 44, 47, 49, 56, 57, figs. 6, 10; Bastawade, 2005: 411, 417; Fet and Soleglad, 2005: 9, 13 (part); Prendini, 2005: 28, 29, 32–36, tables 1, 2, figs. 1, 2; Prendini and Wheeler, 2005: 447, 448, 449, 471, 477, 481, 482, 491, tables 2, 10, appendix 1; Soleglad et al., 2005: 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 14–17, 19, 20, 21, 23–26, 28–30, 32, 33–35, tables 1, 4, 6, figs. 37–39, 68–70, 72–74 (part); Thulsi Rao et al., 2005: 3, 8; Bastawade, 2006a: 131; Indra, 2006: 197, 199; Sureshan et al., 2007a: 2903, 2905; 2007b: 49, 52; Wirkner and Prendini, 2007: 402; Bastawade, 2008: 133, 136; Bastawade and Borkar, 2008: 212, 215, 218; Kamenz and Prendini, 2008: 6, 31, 33, table 1; Prendini and Bird, 2008: 77; Volschenk and Prendini, 2008: 242, 249; Volschenk et al., 2008: 653, 656, 669; Bastawade, 2009: 215, 219; Indra, 2009: 141; Kovařík, 2009: 6, 14, 15, 17, 18, 27, 28, 33 (part), fig. 8, pl. J;

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Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Scorpiones

Family

Scorpionidae